Green infrastructure has been increasingly identified as an option to help manage climate change impacts in urban areas, although its implementation is still not widely promoted in urban planning. This is because of the lack of detailed analysis for decision-makers regarding construction and maintenance costs for different types and how effective various measures are at managing precipitation at a catchment scale. This paper contributes to fill this gap in knowledge by developing a green infrastructure cost-effectiveness ranking index (GICRI) able to evaluate the stormwater runoff volume reduction of multiple green infrastructure alternatives under different climate change scenarios, over differing spatial configurations and combining this performance data with their construction and maintenance costs. After applying this model over two case study areas, this paper provides three main insights. First, climate change projections have a significant impact on green infrastructure costeffectiveness. Second, as green infrastructure cost-effectiveness is influenced by the spatial scale, there are different challenges for larger cities and smaller regional towns. Building on this, the paper argues that GICRI can be a simple and fast heuristic to increase the use of green infrastructure by informing decision-makers regarding how and where to prioritize investment or where greater modelling is needed.
Sistemas de Transportes são partes integrantes e primordiais de cidades de médio e grande porte. São através deles que todos os setores da sociedade se conectam e interagem. O Transporte Público, fundamental para que haja mobilidade urbana nas cidades, tem o papel de, efetivamente, gerir os deslocamentos de seus usuários. Com base no referencial teórico fundamentado, este trabalho objetiva reestruturar o Sistema de Transporte Público atual do município de Jaraguá do Sul, através de análises dos dados coletados de uma Pesquisa de Origem/Destino de 2011, com o enfoque na descentralização e integração das linhas existentes. Esta reestruturação tem como base o processo de localização de terminais urbanos para o município, que somente conta com um. Um novo sistema de Rede de Linhas também proposto, configurando uma nova disposição do Sistema de Transporte Público sobre o plano territorial municipal. O projeto apresenta a melhor forma de disposição das linhas urbanas projetadas e seus itinerários.
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